Research surrounding memory in neuroscience demonstrated a difference between declarative and procedural memory. Studies demonstrated the ability among amnesiacs to learn visuomotor skills, although they could not recall recent happenings that included the learning of the skills. Amnesiacs also demonstrate repetition priming—increased ability to recognize a stimulus when it was encountered previously. Cohen and Squire conclude that amnesiacs’ ability to learn a task is dependent upon the information involved. They view amnesiacs as struggling with declarative memory—which requires recall of specific material—while retaining procedural memory—which is used to perform procedures.

Declarative vs. Procedural Memory

Memory for experiences that feels like you are reliving such an experience (i.e recalling life events that have a storyline). Involves "mental time travel".

Episodic memory

Memory of facts (i.e. recalling the president of the US) that is not associated with a particular time or context. 

Semantic memory

Various researchers distinguish between memory drawing from experience vs. memory drawing from knowledge.

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Explicit memory

Ranganath, C., Libby, A. L., & Wong, L. (2012). Human learning and memory. The Cambridge handbook of cognitive science, 112-130.

Ranganath, C., Libby, A. L., & Wong, L. (2012). Human learning and memory

Types of explicit memory

Distinctions Between Experience & Knowledge in Memory

What facts are known about the world. It is what is consciously able to be recalled independent of context ("knowing what" not "knowing how"). 

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